Household Income Up $700 At Median, $9,900 At The Top

The Census released its Annual Social and Economic Supplement yesterday. According to the new ASEC data, the per capita household income distribution in 2016 looked like this:

The median person has $23,866 of per capita household income, meaning that the income of their household divided by the number of people in their household equaled $23,866. At the 99th percentile, the same figure was $176,406.

Here is how things changed between 2015 and 2016:

The median person saw a per capita household income rise of $717. At the 99th percentile, it was $9,897.

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